Re: [e-users] Graphics arch

[Massimo M. <mai...@gm...>]

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ha scritto il 14/02/2017 alle 01:36:
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 09:15:05 +0100 Massimo Maiurana <mai...@gm...> said:
> 
>> I have a quite old notebook, it will find seven candles on the next
>> birthday cake and I'm afraid it will be time to buy a new one.
> 
> woooo... it still lives? how? has it basically had every part replaced? :)

Yeah, it lives thanks to a lightweight window manager that you know very
well ;)
And no, never replaced anything, only removed dust from the fan a couple
of times.

Thanks to you and Daniel, I think I'll stick to intel and keep amd as an
alternative.

Bye
Massimo

>> Regarding graphics, what would be the best bet for a linux user, and
>> more specifically for an E user? What is best supported by drivers?
>> For example, I currently have an old intel chip (gma 4500) that doesn't
>> work anymore in GL mode so I had to switch to software compositing, and
>> I'm worried that the integrated graphics in Intel Core i5 series
>> processors could give me some problems.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your hints :)
> 
> any intel chip since the first i3/5/7 gens will be just fine. sandybridge on is
> perfectly fine for sure. some of the older intel gpu's were iffy. they kinda
> did almost all of oepngl2 but not all of it. but that was fixed. if you guy a
> new laptop today anything with an i3//5/i7 will be just fine. intel are not the
> speediest of gpu's but they are perfectly adequate for 2d. they may begin to
> struggle with really high res (like multiple 4k montiors).
> 
> most intel gpu based systems often have limited muti-screen support. at least
> on motherboards often they have had eg hmdi and vga (so 1 digital, 1 analog)
> which would make it hard to decently run any high res off the vga. and if you
> wanted 3 screens it'd be a struggle. that may have improved now. i haven't
> tried intel on a desktop recently. but on laptops the intel gpus hum along
> nicely for a desktop even at high resolutions. they will begin to struggle with
> games. if you don't play games (or only ones with simple graphics), then an
> intel gpu today is just fine. of course nvidia and amd will scale up much more.
> for games nvidia will trounce the amd on linux, but the amd has open source
> drivers... at least for recent cards. though i have avoided amd for years after
> the last time fglrx screwed me over...
> 
> so if you are going to get another laptop ... well i'd advise going for a pure
> intel-only one and you'll be just fine. if its a desktop - choose your
> motherboard carefully to get the outputs you want for the intel AND you can
> optionally also add a discrete gpu too...
> 
> for now though stick clear of nvidia if you want to do anything wayland
> related... :)
> 


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Massimo Maiurana
Ragusa (RG)